From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 3 13:18:52 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17AD237B401 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 13:18:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 428F743F43 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 13:18:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([172.16.0.95]) by pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h13LKFT5072010; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:20:16 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E3EDC66.4090805@potentialtech.com> Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 16:17:26 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steven Lake Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Nuking unwanted mail via fetchmail and sendmail References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steven Lake wrote: > HI all. Looking for a simple way to nuke unwanted incoming email. > Let me explain further. What I'm having trouble with is I keep getting > virus infected emails from a "big@boss.com" coming into my email. That > makes for a total pain for me when I try to download it because Norton > kills the mail transfer as soon as it sees the virus thus causing me to > have to login, nuke the infected mail, logout, then download my mail like > normal. > > What I'm currently using is Fetchmail in combination with Sendmail > 8.12 on my system. Fetchmail goes out and grabs the mail off of my 3 > primary email accounts, then dumps them into my user account on my box. > What I'd like to do is to have sendmail or fetchmail (either one is fine) > immediately nuke any mail that comes in from these addresses or domains so > that I never have to see it. > > Anyone know how to do this? The simpler the solution, the better. > :) There's spamassasin for content filtering. You may also want to install Amavis to catch viruses. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message